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Reformation in Bloomington, MN
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Newcomer pianist
Mishka Rushdie Momen
touches on various topics in her notes for this 2024 release, which made classical best-seller lists in the summer of that year. She makes the interesting claim that the secular keyboard music on this album is allied in spirit to the English Reformation. However, she doesn't say much about the most immediately striking feature of the album, namely her use of a modern piano in music by
William Byrd
,
Orlando Gibbons
John Bull
, and
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
, written originally for virginals or a harpsichord. This is not exactly common, but
Glenn Gould
used to play
Gibbons
on a piano (and even called him his favorite composer), and several contemporary pianists do so as well.
Rushdie Momen
's is one of the more ambitious attempts. Hers is not a heavily pianistic performance; the pedals are used, but only lightly, and the sonorities are well integrated into the texture.
includes several monumental works, such as
Bull
's
Walsingham
, and mixes them with shorter pieces that have unusual takes on dance rhythms and pictorial images.
Byrd
The Bells
is not an especially common piece, and
absolutely nails the big superstructure that
erects over the simplest of grounds. Every interpretation is well considered, and there is never any feeling that one is hearing a Romantic vision of the English (and Dutch) Renaissance. A wonderful outing from a pianist whom listeners are likely to get to know better. ~ James Manheim
Mishka Rushdie Momen
touches on various topics in her notes for this 2024 release, which made classical best-seller lists in the summer of that year. She makes the interesting claim that the secular keyboard music on this album is allied in spirit to the English Reformation. However, she doesn't say much about the most immediately striking feature of the album, namely her use of a modern piano in music by
William Byrd
,
Orlando Gibbons
John Bull
, and
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
, written originally for virginals or a harpsichord. This is not exactly common, but
Glenn Gould
used to play
Gibbons
on a piano (and even called him his favorite composer), and several contemporary pianists do so as well.
Rushdie Momen
's is one of the more ambitious attempts. Hers is not a heavily pianistic performance; the pedals are used, but only lightly, and the sonorities are well integrated into the texture.
includes several monumental works, such as
Bull
's
Walsingham
, and mixes them with shorter pieces that have unusual takes on dance rhythms and pictorial images.
Byrd
The Bells
is not an especially common piece, and
absolutely nails the big superstructure that
erects over the simplest of grounds. Every interpretation is well considered, and there is never any feeling that one is hearing a Romantic vision of the English (and Dutch) Renaissance. A wonderful outing from a pianist whom listeners are likely to get to know better. ~ James Manheim
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